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The Cubs are not interested in re-signing Derrek Lee, who is being pursued by the Padres to replace Gonzalez. Chicago Tribune.
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As for the other options at first, the Cubs continue to pursue Carlos Pena – indeed, a source says the Cubs met with Pena's agent (Scott Boras) on Monday night (Bruce Levine says the same in the article linked below). Internally, the Cubs fear that if they are drawn into a bidding war with other interested teams (the Orioles, Blue Jays, and Nationals, among others), they can't win.
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With a recession sweeping the country, Congress and the Administration went looking for shovel-ready public works projects to fund with the $787 Billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act ("ARRA"). Predictably, the money will support state and local government infrastructure projects like roads, bridges and public transit. Buried in the deck is a wildcard: a $1.1 billion allocation for comparative effectiveness research ("CER") to study what medical treatment modalities work best for which patients, and under what circumstances. 2
The CER appropriation suggests that Washington has discovered evidence-based medicine. But the objectives of this appropriation differ in some respects from the outcomes that most clinicians seek as they strive to develop and apply best practices.
CER funding could help advance evidence-based medicine, thereby helping community practitioners and their patients. Much of the money will be used to compare the effectiveness of various drugs, medical devices, and a wide range of treatment protocols and interventions. Under ARRA, the Institute of Medicine ("IOM") has responsibility for recommending priorities for the research to be conducted with the funds. 3 IOM wasted little time in surveying the medical and health policy community to recommend issues to study. 4 Its preliminary report, issued June 30, 2009, lists one hundred research topics, prioritized in quartiles. Topping the list is comparing the effectiveness of treatment strategies for atrial fibrillation, including surgery, catheter ablation, and pharmacological strategies. Further down the list are topics such as comparing the effectiveness of diagnostic imaging performed by non-radiologists and radiologists. 5
The IOM report notes that "the most important priority of all should be the building of a broad and supportive infrastructure to carry out a sustainable national CER strategy" and that Congress and the DHHS Secretary "must take concerted steps to establish a robust CER enterprise." 6 The American health care system is notoriously decentralized. Perhaps as a result, the industry's approach to medical research also is fragmented. Pharmaceutical companies seeking FDA approval for a new drug, for example, may focus on proving the safety and efficacy of the drug based on a relatively homogenous patient population. Various public and private agencies and research hospitals may choose to conduct studies to determine how a drug or procedure works within discrete patient subpopulations, which drugs to include in a formulary, quality of life issues, or other factors. Synthesizing data from these diverse sources often is impossible. With the federal government now interested in CER, this may change. Perhaps by coordinating research or developing ways to share data, for example, more may be learned about an intervention's effectiveness among diverse patient populations administered by clinicians in the real world. 7
The purpose of evidence-based medicine is to help practitioners make wiser decisions. Washington policy makers appear to be interested in additional issues. In addition to pure medical research, the administration will be comparing the relative costs of various treatment options. The Obama administration and others are concerned that the cost of health care is the largest barrier to access. In 2007, Americans spent $7,421 per person on health care, amounting to 16.2 percent of the gross domestic product. 8 Something must be done to control costs, the argument goes, or universal access to care by all citizens will be unaffordable.
While Americans spent $2.2 trillion on health care in 2007, 45.7 million people between the ages of 18 and 65 were uninsured. 9 When these uninsured folks pay for their health care, they pay more than any of us. Too often, they skip preventive care and then pay the full retail or "rack" rates for emergency treatment without the benefit of negotiated provider discount rates. More often, the uninsured cannot pay the cost of their medical care, and their bills remain unpaid. The cost of providing care to uninsured patients is a burden on community practitioners and hospitals.
With this desire to curb medical costs, CER will focus on two troublesome issues: accounting for the financial cost of treatment in comparing effectiveness of different regimens, and limiting the number of treatment options that might be covered by public benefit programs or private insurance. We can expect the research to be used in making coverage determinations by federally funded health benefit programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration and the federal employees' health benefit plans. Given the size of these programs, their coverage decisions likely will inform the design and coverage determinations of private employers' group health plans. In the end, the research could be used to deny coverage for some interventions that are deemed too expensive in relation to other options.
CER could shape the agenda for deciding how, and where, to cut health care costs. 10 As a society, Americans appear uncomfortable with making treatment decisions based on cost. Almost unconsciously, many believe that access to health care is a basic human right. Indeed, the recent grassroots opposition to healthcare reform has focused on threats to cutting benefits or rationing care. Current health care reform proposals have raised the specter of "death review panels" and withholding medical treatment. 11 This political landscape will make it difficult for any health plan – public or private – to make coverage decisions.
Other industrialized countries offering universal health care access are more direct in rationing care and making treatment decisions based on cost. The United Kingdom, for example, uses comparative effectiveness data to make coverage decisions. The National Health Service's Institute for Clinical Excellence collects data to create guidelines for the use of emerging medical interventions. Under their guidelines, if the intervention will cost more than £30,000 per "quality adjusted life year," it will not be covered. 12 As a result, interventions that are available and covered under insured Americans' health plans may not be covered in the UK.
In choosing medical interventions, American patients are accustomed to considering questions of safety, efficacy and effectiveness. Standing alone, CER will not curb the growth in health costs. But CER may force patients and their health benefit plans to ask the additional question, "Is it worth it?" Whether the United States is ready to ask that question, and to live and die by the answers, remains to be seen.
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1.please reccommend a very powerful and easy to find fragrance that gives this sort of TINGLING PRICKY, SHARP sensation to the nose,that is also a sillage monster.i don't know how to explain it but i wish you guys would understand what i'm trying to say.I smell it on people and love it,and all the few fragrances i have tried do not project that way.
2.please reccomend a very powerful long-lasting and easy to find fragrance that fills a room instantly and leaves a trail in the room or hall even after the wearer has left.a costomer came to my office two days ago and his fragrance filled the hall,and was still there like three to five minuites after he was gone.The ones i have used that some basenoters said would give this effect but didnt are:Terre d hermes,Polo green,Pacco Rabbane black XS.these three just stay close to the skin and i can't persive it after sometime.
I will be very happy if i could get good recommendations for these two categories i have stated
I'm not a guru, but try Le Male ... well, you don't have to be a guru to suggest this, I think. Le Male on the right guy is still catchy, although it is common, though less so recently. The crowd has moved on, I think.
For No 1, I would say L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme. I find it quite sharp, but not in a good way to me.
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Both sound like Azzaro Chrome, liberally applied.
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Maybe Fahrenheit?
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Farenheit can rot teeth at fifty paces so I would agree that that is probably the culprit.
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For 1, I think you need to tell us if it is a strong wood note or something else. The other possibility is violet leaf, as in Grey Flannel.
For 2, I would suggest Pheromone for Men by Marylin Miglin.
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for (1) i dont mind the notes as long as it gives ths tingling sharp cripsy sensation to the olfalctory nerves,and it projects well and is as well a very potent cologne.
For the pheromone for men,i'm so sure i can get it in my part of the world.so greatful for your suggestions,
Have you tried Green Irish Tweed? For me, this has the kind of sensation you mentioned, at least in the opening. Thus, I'm guessing it's violet leaf that you want a strong dose of for 1.
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1. Joop!?
2. Kouros or Aramis, liberally applied, should do the trick.
1- makes me think of a sharp lavender
It depends upon where you are located, but my vote would go to perfaddict's first suggestion: Chrome. I encounter it much more often than Fahrenheit, and as he said, liberally applied it fits both of your criteria.
1. PG Querelle
2. Rive Gauche PH
Different people have different skin chemistry. Some people (like myself) have extremely dry skin and even strong fragrances applied liberally stay close to the skin and have abysmal silage. Perhaps you should invest in some unscented body butter and rub this on the areas of your skin where you intend on applying your fragrance. According to Patrick on YouTube, it's quite effective.
you guys are simply wonderful.thanx for your responses,at least i now know that violet notes in a fragrance gives this effect.
I have used amen too.it does not give this effect.i have also tested joop and kouros too.they fall short too.
Thank you guys.more suggestions please.
i mean,they dont give that tingling sensation i'm talking about,they didnt last on me as other people talk.i dont like their smell either.i want a cologne that would fill everywhere,that would make people say wow,this is a powerful cologne like they did when someone walked into my office earlier this week.i wasnt the only one that comented.the fragrance was still present after he was gone.more suggestions please,of such fragarance that is easy to get too.
Hi dandbull - I see what you mean now! My suggestions would be the following:
Lapidus Pour Homme - very powerful - lots of projection & sillage
Giorgio Beverly Hills for Men - exceptionally powerful & long lasting - you will leave a cloud of fragrance with this one!
Sung Homme - Again, very strong, long lasting and lots of sillage
Lanvin Arpege Pour Homme - More contemporary and sweeter than the above - another powerhouse fragrance
Bond No.9 New Haarlem - Very expensive smelling gourmand with coffee and patchouli heart - clouds of sillage!
Hope one of these fits the bill!
try chanel platinum egoiste
but what you want I'm afraid may be gourmand stuff.
blenheim bouquet and Douro by penhaligons offer that sharp zing you're looking for..
come to think of it, you may well be talking about aldehydes.
@derbyman,thanx for your contribution.would have wanted some common names though.my problem is that the fragrances that i can get here are those from the more popular designers.i wish i could order them online but you will hardly find any of these shops that would want to ship to nigeria,so i am limited to the ones i can find in shops around here.not so much varieties like you guys overseas
1. Platinum Egoiste, Boss Elements, Perry Ellis 360º, Herrera Chic and Sergio Tacchini Stile and his last aquatic all do tingly things to my nose. But they're not that popular, so I doubt that they're the scent you've been smelling on others. Also, plenty of cheap and nasty scents have some tingle to them too.
2. Joop Homme is the ultimate sillage monster. Other strong contenders include Aramis, Lagerfeld's Photo, Opium, Dali's Laguna, L'Eau D'Issey, A*men, Bogart PH, Sung Homme, Azzaro Chrome. And there are plenty of woody, leathery and oriental scents - mainly from the 70s, 80s and 90s - that with a bit of over application will give you a 10 foot radius aura as well. Only problem is reformulation. For example, six sprays of Lanvin L'Homme used to pretty much over power anything within range. But my newest bottle is pretty tame compared to my old one. Same story with Quorum.
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Joop, Kouros and Polo original fell short?? Dude, are you sure you're not hyposmic or olfactorily fatigued? You might want to have your nose tested before you activate the HazMat team by accident.
Hi dandbull - Yeah, I understand you're limited in what you can have shipped to Nigeria - didn't realise that was your location! perfaddict who replied earlier in the thread is located in Lagos (and he's a bona fide Powerhouse Guru!) so he may be able to offer advice on where to obtain some of the more obscure fragrances. Good luck in your search.
I find it a bit difficult to really understand both factors you're looking for. "Tingling, prickly sharp" could be said of a lot of fragrances I think, but my guess is you have something more specific in mind related to the notes. What you will probably need to do is sample some of the suggestions here.
As for a room filling sillage scent, MALLE NOIR EPICES is very, very strong. But as Diamondflame said, if JOOP, KOUROS and POLO aren't loud enough for you, not sure what would be. Also, are you sure you want to be the guy who is a walking cologne bomb?
I'm not judging you- we all hit the juice pretty hard from time to time, but if you find those scents too weak, it's pretty tough to come up with any that are louder.


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Oil-sands deals are getting done at the slowest pace in nine years as the Canadian government's heightened scrutiny of investments by foreign state-owned companies hinders transactions.
Industry Canada officials are now vetting deals that don't require approval under the nation's foreign-takeover law, according to two people who have advised on transactions involving state-owned companies. Even foreign investors not usually deemed state owned are being asked to prove they aren't controlled or influenced by government, including whether the state has the power to appoint directors, said another person familiar with the process. The people asked not to be identified as the details aren't public.
The federal government is also probing more proposed acquisitions involving state-owned firms to see if they pose a threat to national security, said Julie Soloway, a partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto.
"They are definitely digging deeper on these transactions," Soloway said in a phone interview on Sept. 12.
Mergers and acquisitions in the oil sands fell this year to the lowest since 2004, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Smaller developers including Athabasca Oil Corp. (ATH) and BlackPearl Resources Inc. (PXX) are lagging behind peers after the government introduced rules to block state-owned buyers from purchasing oil-sands companies. Athabasca fell 22 percent since the rules were made public on Dec. 7, versus a 7.3 percent gain on the Standard & Poor's/TSX Energy Index.
Additional Challenge
"You've had companies that have taken a step back and looked at what they can do and what they can't do and I think a few transactions that were going to proceed have not proceeded because of this," said George Gosbee, chief executive officer of AltaCorp Capital Inc., a Calgary-based investment bank.
The additional government scrutiny adds to challenges affecting Canadian energy stocks, including a slower economy in China and pipeline shortages that have helped push Canadian heavy crude prices to $31.20 a barrel below the U.S. benchmark. Spot prices for Western Canadian Select, the heavy grade, closed at $71.12 on Sept. 27, versus $102.32 for West Texas Intermediate, according to figures compiled by Bloomberg.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is examining whether the added scrutiny is contributing to a drop in investment by state-owned companies in a sector that depends on foreign cash, Jim Prentice, vice chairman of the bank and a former Canadian industry minister, said in Calgary.
'Energy Superpower'
"It behooves us to look at this and to assess what the causes are and to make sure that, as a country, we're careful," Prentice said in an interview on Sept. 18.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has called Canada an emerging "energy superpower," is asserting control over the nation's resources after about $51 billion in investments by state-owned firms in the Canadian oil and gas industry over the last seven years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The nation's oil sands in Alberta are the world's third largest source of crude reserves and the starting point for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Canada in December approved Cnooc Ltd. (883)'s $15.1 billion acquisition of Calgary producer Nexen Inc., and the C$5.2 billion ($5.05 billion) purchase of Progress Energy Resources Corp. by Petroliam Nasional Bhd., Malaysia's state-owned energy company. At the same time, Harper said the government would permit further purchases of oil-sands businesses by state-owned enterprises only under "exceptional circumstances."
'Perfect Storm'
The government, which already vets foreign takeovers above C$344 million, also said it will "carefully monitor" deals involving state-owned enterprises in the world's 11th-largest economy, and will "act to safeguard Canadian interests" when it appears that such acquisitions will "undermine the private sector orientation of an industry."
The rules created a "perfect storm" to reduce deal activity in the oil sands, where stocks had already been dragged down by lower oil and gas prices, said Dan Cheng of Matco Financial Inc., who helps manage C$430 million from Calgary.
Canadian energy companies have underperformed U.S. peers by 25 percentage points on Standard & Poor's indexes during the past five years, returning 6 percent compared with 31 percent for the U.S., according to figures compiled by Bloomberg.
TransCanada Corp. (TRP)'s $5.3 billion Keystone XL pipeline is in its sixth year of U.S. review, a delay that has led to pipeline bottlenecks. Economic growth in China, the world's largest energy consumer, is projected by analysts to rise 7.6 percent in 2013, the lowest annual increase since a 7.6 percent expansion in 1999, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Voting Rights
Now Industry Canada is reviewing transactions involving state-owned enterprises that fall below the C$344 million threshold that triggers an automatic review, according to two people familiar with discussions with the department.
All foreign investors are also now being asked a set of questions on state control, including whether a state owns a third or more of the investor's voting rights and whether a government has the power to appoint managers and members of the company's board, said one of the people familiar with the talks.
Industry Minister James Moore said foreign takeovers have been "elevated to a new degree of sensitivity" since the Nexen and Progress decisions.
"This is something that has greater attention than ever before, and we want to make sure that any decision is given the weight and consideration that it's due and the department is allocating the resources and talent to these kinds of decisions," Moore said in an interview last month at his Ottawa office.
Pipeline Venture
TransCanada and a unit of PetroChina Co. (857) said in October they would work together on a C$3 billion ($2.9 billion) oil pipeline through Alberta. After Harper announced the new foreign-takeover rules in December, the government asked the companies to halt the project while it examined the deal on national security grounds, said a person familiar with the issue.
The review surprised company officials, because the government initially welcomed the project, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions aren't public. The project didn't involve oil-sands production and was a joint venture, not a takeover.
The pipeline is still on schedule, said Davis Sheremata, a TransCanada spokesman, declining to comment on discussions with governments. Mao Zefeng, a spokesman in Beijing for PetroChina, the publicly traded arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., said by phone the company has no comment on the project.
Athabasca, BlackPearl
Industry Canada's media relations office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the department's scrutiny of transactions involving state-owned enterprises, including the deal between TransCanada and PetroChina.
The C$751 million purchase by Exxon Mobil Corp. and Imperial Oil Ltd. of ConocoPhillips' Clyden property in Alberta marked the first "significant" oil-sands transaction in 2013, according to a report this month by Peters & Co., a Calgary investment adviser. The deal activity compares with $16.1 billion in mergers and acquisitions involving the oil sands last year, including the Nexen takeover.
Investors betting on an Athabasca Oil takeover have left the stock, Andre De Leebeeck, a company spokesman, said in a phone interview.
BlackPearl has had similar share price declines to Athabasca, falling 35 percent since the rules were announced. John Festival, chief executive officer of the company, didn't return a phone message seeking comment.
Seeking Clarity
Athabasca, which did two joint venture deals with PetroChina in the oil sands, has been seeking clarity for months on how the government defines control by a state-owned company to speed talks on potential new partnerships, De Leebeeck said.
Canada's new foreign-takeover policies were more stringent than expected and have resulted in lower investment from state-owned companies even outside the oil sands, said John Brussa, vice chairman at Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP in Calgary.
"That policy came a bit out of left field," Brussa said. "It's made the SOEs quite reticent to stick their toe in the water, generally," he said, referring to state-owned enterprises.


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Audrey Porter is the assistant director and coordinator for My Life, My Choice. Now in her forties, she was a teenager when she was steered into prostitution in Boston, and stayed there for a while because of a drug habit developed on the job. As part of Phillip Martin's investigation into Sexual and Human Trafficking, Audrey Porter talks about the work of her organization and her own history.
Q: Describe the organization briefly.
A: The mother organization is a JRI, a Justice Research Institute, and that's where we house, My Life, My Choice. It's run by Lisa Goldblatt Grace, who is the director and founder, and myself, as assistant director and coordinator of Survivor Services. In order to get funding, to stand alone just as My Life, My Choice would have been difficult. That's why we're housed in a reputable, big organization.
Q: And you work with young women under eighteen. Tell us about the women you work with.
A: I'll start by saying that most of them have been dealt not such a good hand. Most of them are in group homes. One of the things that I find with all of them is their mother is not in their life. For whatever reason. It doesn't necessarily have to be because of addiction, that's part of it, sometimes it could be mental illness. They were young parents who gave the kids up. It's various reasons. Mom doesn't want to be a mom or they just don't get along. But that is a piece that they all have in common. It could be death. The bottom line is there is no strong mother figure in their lives. That's what I've noticed most about them. And they're all in DCF [Department of Children and Family] custody, in group homes, juvenile detention centers, foster homes and that sort of thing. So I work with very vulnerable young girls who, as I said, have been dealt a really bad hand.
Q: You've spoken all over the country. Let's concentrate on Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Have you found with any of the young women or even young men that you've spoken with that any of them have been "trafficked."
A: Here in Massachusetts if a pimp is pimping a young girl under eighteen, you no longer have to take her across state lines. Here in Massachusetts, you are charged with trafficking. But to give you a better example, I've had girls that have been moved from New York City, Connecticut, Atlantic City, Las Vegas. Definitely if you're thinking in terms of being moved around from state to state, it's like the same route that drugs are traveled, up and down 95. A lot of times I meet girls from Maine, who are brought from Maine and then they'll come in to Boston and then go to New York, Atlanta, Florida, Las Vegas. I know girls who have been anywhere that there's a major event, Superbowls, any big event, any worldwide events, where pimps know there will be money. New Orleans, Mardi Gras. These children have been to these different places.
Q: People in this industry seem to be getting a lot smarter, the pimps and the traffickers. One thing they've started doing is placing girls in nail salons. That doesn't surprise you though. Why?
A: It doesn't surprise me. I don't have experience with that, but I'm clearly not surprised- things are sophisticated. Most people would say, "Oh we don't have a problem with underage girls on the street" because they don't see them on the street. It's not the way it used to be. Everyone has a cover. That is how they're setting up. One of the things we already know is Craig's List. Everybody knows about Craig's List. In this business you have to get smarter. They know everyone knows about Craig's List so they have to come up with different ways for these girls to make money. And I could definitely see a nail salon with underage girls, pretty girls, I do know that some of them have back rooms for massages. I can see that happening. I am not surprised. I think the more sophisticated we become, they always try to step ahead of us. As soon as we've thought we've caught up and found the answer and the source and how these things are happening, they come up with something different.
Q: You said it's an easy way to bring girls in.
A: I can see girls who are not U.S. citizens coming in, and we're all used to nail salons being full of Asians. As Americans we don't question that. We know that they've cornered the nail salon market. As Americans, we've accepted that. We feel like that's they're business. They're spread out worldwide because any state you go to Asians have cornered the nail salon market. So, I'm not going to think it's unusual to see a bunch of pretty little young girls in the nail salon. I'm not going to, as a detective, go in there saying, "Let's card these girls. Let's make sure they're U.S. citizens," because it all fits. Who do they employ? Asians. I have yet to go in to an Asian-owned nail salon and seen an American working there. I've seen Asian girls who were born here, but I've never gone in one and seen an African-American or a Hispanic woman working there. It's an excellent cover.
They've always had their brothels and they've always kept it separate. When I was on the street, you would not see not one Asian girl. They were always housed. They were always somewhere undercover. I remember being in a combat zone and you would go in to an apartment building down into a basement where complete casinos were set up, ideal place for their girls. So they've always kept their prostitution rings separate from us. So I see that could be an excellent cover. I'm not going to question a 15-year-old girl in the summertime doing nails and feet. And she could be trafficked and I'm not going to question that because I see nothing wrong with that. I could see that going over someone's head. Myself being someone who did come from the street, always had to come up with a plan, a different hustle, a slicker way to do things, I could see this happening.
Q: Where did you grow up? And how did you end up, as they say, "on the street?"
A: I grew up in Dorchester. Hard-working family. My parents owned a big, beautiful home. And I just- I took a lot of abuse. I dealt with racism within my own community and I lived in a black community. But at the same time my experience was being a lighter-skinned black child. Being called things like "white girl," "puss color." The other children I know, today, were jealous because we did have that big home. I came from a middle-class black family. What happened was my self-esteem was torn down so low. I wanted to be real black and have real nappy hair. Early on, from the other kids, I was told that I wasn't okay that it was not alright to look like me. And so I basically, for myself, I went on a mission to prove that I was black and that I belonged in that community. Because I went on that mission I came in contact with the wrong people because the kids that harassed me really came from the other side. They struggled, they were on welfare. So I began to hang out with them. It was them that I needed to prove something to.
So I got mixed up with people that, had I had some self-esteem, I would not have been around. It was just an innocent thing. My first experience was my daughter's father. I had a baby, I got pregnant at fifteen, was a mother at sixteen. He started wanting half of my welfare check, then I was going in stores stealing for him, then the talk of dancing and strip clubs. He had a cousin that was a pimp. I remember my first experience standing on a corner, still didn't know what I was doing. The car that pulled over was a police officer who pulled out his badge and told me that I had to give him a blowjob or he would arrest me. That was my introduction, and at that time it dawned on me that, "Oh my God, I don't want to do this." We see our children and people will say, "Oh, they know what they're doing." I was clueless until I was in that car with that strange man, and when he said that to me all I could do was cry like a baby. He did end up letting me go without doing anything. I guess I cried so much he said, "Whatever." That was just the gateway to me. It just opened the door for me.
I was in love, it was my daughter's father, at that time I was going to do anything to be with him. The love I had for him was real. To this day I have to say that it was real. It was that teenaged first love. What he wanted me to do or asked me to do or suggested, I did it, and I found myself trapped in a combat zone for about 15 years. I worked every strip club. I got smart dealing with him, that kind of ran short. Then, I was so embarrassed of what I had become I ended up doing all the strip clubs. I became addicted to all substances just to cope.
I need to clear this up too, when I went into the life I had experimented with drugs like most kids, but I did not go in with a habit. The dependency came after being in the life. I know now that it was a means to cope, and if it were not for the drugs I probably would have lost my mind. I was underage in the strip clubs. Nobody asked for an ID. Once in a while the vice [police unit] might come in and do a little raid and ask girls for their IDs, but if we were inside and we didn't have an ID they just might say something like "Get out and if you come back here I'm gonna lock you up!" It wasn't "This could possibly be someone's child. She can't prove her age." That's just how it was.
I've had the experience of sawed-off shotguns to my head. Knives to my throat. Rapes. Cars trying to run me over. It was just very, very ugly. It was a nightmare for me. So I stayed there. Down the line I met another guy. At the time I was 20 I met a guy that was 36. He told me he was not a pimp, he was a "player." Older guy, hustler. Hooked up with him. Took care of him. He said he wasn't a pimp, he was a player. To me, anybody's a pimp who would have someone they would call "their woman-"" If he really cared, he could have said, "You don't have to do this." He was down for the cause just like anybody else was. So it was beneficial to him also.
Q: When you were down in the combat zone, which some people might not be familiar with today, you were adjacent to Chinatown. Did you have any interaction with Chinese or Vietnamese people?
A: Absolutely. You were in Chinatown. It was actually a smaller Chinatown at that time. The combat zone was where all the strip clubs were. That's where all the girls and women worked the street. You were surrounded by Chinatown. They came in the clubs. They were johns just like anyone else. Very cheap, I'll say that. I had a few regulars that were my own personal regulars that were Asian. I was in the combat zone, I was supposed to know everything that was going on, but again going a few times with Asian men, I found myself in underground casinos right in Chinatown. They always had undercover stuff going on. I'm sure anywhere there's gambling there's prostitution. So that's how I ended up in a lot of their underground spots because they were paying me to go out with them.
Q: Did you ever meet Asian prostitutes in any of these?
A: Oh no. Oh no, no, no. Absolutely separate. I don't even know what pimps would do if they had Asian girls back then. If an Asian girl was on a street corner, if the Asians walked by and seen it, they would beat the crap out of her and throw her in the car. They did not play that. I guess the message was clear across the board that they were not allowed to be out there. Even in the strip clubs, I probably seen maybe one or two. We know that they have their brothels and their women, but even back then as Americans we didn't know where they kept them. They were somewhere. They were somewhere.
Q: In terms of the young ladies that you talk to, do you have the occasion of talking to Asian women.
A: No, no. I just met a young girl that is Asian. I heard bits and pieces of her story. I just met her. I don't work with her one-on-one, but right now I don't have an Asian girl on my caseload.
Q: Is she Asian-American?
A: No, she's not. She's from Taiwan.
Q: I mentioned that in San Francisco you have something very unusual going on according to the Sergeant with the Sex Crimes Unit. What is unusual he says is the notion of stabling African-American and Latina women together. Have you ever heard of such a thing?
A: No, I haven't, but back when I was out there remember, they were from the old country. Now you have a whole generation of American-born Asians that were brought up here, go by the same rules, break the same laws that we do, and I have been told that young girls, American and Spanish-speaking, have been put in Asian brothels. What I'm told is these girls who were born here, US citizens that are put in these brothels, out of state or what have you, for them the feeling is no different than a child being trafficked from a foreign country brought into the US because they're in brothels that don't speak a bit of English. Imagine twenty Asian girls, none of them speak English and you put a Spanish-speaking girl or an American girl in that brothel in another state. You've picked the girl up in Boston, and put her in a brothel like that in New York. It's no different than someone coming from a foreign country being put in an American brothel.
Q: In talking with the young women you work with, some are going to continue doing what they do, but some also want to get out. What do you say to those that want to continue what they do? What do you say to those who want to get out and what do they do actually?
A: The ones who want to do what they want to do I let them know I'm there for them no matter what. Wherever you go they all have my cell phone number. One of the things I try to do is plan a safety plan. Maybe say something like, "Honey maybe you should leave some clothes or a little extra cash with someone you trust because I'm gonna tell you, it's gonna get ugly." I just give the girls the information and all I have is my experience to share with them. I tell them how it was glamorous for me, I thought, in the beginning, but if they stay in, how they're gonna end up. But I support my girls. My back does not turn if they go back to their pimp, at all. My role is I'm here for you no matter what. And I have girls who are still in the life who still call and check in with me. As I was walking with you, a young lady who I love dearly, still in the life, left the state. I go and visit her. That's the type of relationship that we have. She does check in with me and run things by me.
I just tell them the truth. I don't co-sign anything. You ask my opinion, I give it to them, but I'm there no matter what because I know I'm just one person and I know the hold that a pimp will have on these young girls. My role is just to stay put, keep the same cell phone number, make sure they know it, memorize it, make sure that I give them the resources that they need, make sure that I educate them because my group is a prevention group. I just give them that information. As far as the girls who have gotten out, I have girls that have gotten out. I have a young lady who is graduating High School June 13th, and I'm so excited, who's going off to college who was exploited at age fourteen and just got out over a year ago.
Q: How did she get out?
A: She was fourteen when she got in when a pimp trafficked her, Atlantic City, New York. How she got out was she was in my group. She knew about me. All the information that I had given her early on, she knew she had somewhere to go. After she was picked up as a minor, she was brought back to Boston. She knows that the resources are there. See, I didn't know. I didn't have any resources. Nobody gave me information. The girls who have gotten out or back and forth come back to me and tell me the same thing, "Audrey everything you said would happen to me has happened to me." My job is to give them the foundation and the information. The proof is in the pudding because the information I give them, again, when they go back out, happens.
We're fortunate enough here in Boston to have a really strong network of folks. These are our girls. We're fortunate in Boston because our Department of Children and Family services have now said, "These are our kids." They were one of the first people to give us money to say, ""there's a problem and let's figure out what we can do to prevent this from happening."" So all our girls that are in the child protective custody or in the system in any kind of way, most of them are educated. I go into the group homes and DCF offices and run groups. Some of the DCF offices are running them on their own. Our girls are really educated, so even if they do go back out, they do have the information. When they come back it's not a question of "What do I do?" When they say, "I'm tired" or "I've had enough," they have an option. They know that we're there for them.
Q: Where is underage prostitution taking place in the state? Where mainly is this taking place and how does it take place considering just how extra illegal it is?
A: Well it takes place because we have the trusty old Internet now. First of all, pimps can use the internet, they're recruiting girls from the internet. They are setting these girls up with websites, ""let's put some make-up on you, some nice clothes, take these professional pictures."" The reason we never see our children is because they're on the internet. What they do now is just place these girls in a hotel room. Instead of where I come from on a street corner, that's how they're doing it now. They are in major hotels. For the most part, they're not in sleazy hotels. They might book a room in a hotel, let's just say the Cambridge Hyatt for a week, and because they have a site, the johns will know where they are.
I had a girl say to me that she was "on tour," that was her term, because on the internet she can say "Next week I'll be in New York," and then johns will schedule appointments with her. So then she can leave Boston and she'll already have the dates lined up, and when she gets to New York she'll go on a site and put her location. When she gets there through a cell phone she'll tell the john exactly what hotel she's in. It's all internet based. It's just not on the streets. It's really undercover. They're really tricking the kids because they look at magazines and they see these airbrushed girls and they want to be like that. The pimps set them up with hair and make-up, and then, ""why don't you take your shirt off. Let's get a topless shot."" Before she knows it she's in a hotel room.
Q: The funny thing is you rarely hear media press refer to the men who prostitute these girls as pedophiles.
A: I used to call them pedophiles too, but the reality is most of them have sex with young girls because they can. We have since educated ourselves to know a pedophile is somebody who fantasizes about children. These guys don't fit that bill. This is more because they can, because they can. Don't get me wrong, there are those in Thailand who go out with the little children and know they're little children too. In most cases, the majority is because they can. The problem with that is nobody wants to look at the demand. They did a bust outside of Boston some years ago and the police chief said, "We used the johns to bust the prostitutes. We let them go because we didn't want to further embarrass them." And I have to say that anywhere there's an adult sex industry there are always children in there. Always, always, always.
Q: Thanks, Audrey. Anything you'd like to add before you have to fly?
A: It's serious. It can happen to all children. Because you live in the suburbs does not mean that it will not happen to your child. All of our children are sitting on the internet, even myself, I said, "My daughter's so good. She stays in the house. She's eighteen. She's just in her room on the computer." The people that these kids can meet on a computer – it's ugly. So none of the children are safe. It's not just the vulnerable children. And we need to really look at this as a community. The average age of entry is twelve to fifteen. No one can convince me that a twelve year old on her own said, "I want to be a prostitute." There's always somebody behind that child. Like anything, somebody has to teach you how to do it. "
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On Thursday morning, some of the brightest and most experienced law enforcement minds from across Colorado converged at the Boulder County Justice Center where, behind closed doors, they put their heads together to try and bring closure to another one of the state's many cold-case murders.
The gathering was the eighth meeting of Colorado's cold case review team, a statewide task force comprised of members of various different law enforcement branches from all over the state put together to try to provide new insight into crimes that have waited years to be solved.
"These are cases that have been ignored for years for whatever reason," Boulder Assistant District Attorney Ryan Brackely said as he kicked off the session. "Now we're dusting off those boxes and taking another look."
Officials declined to identify which cases were being reviewed by the team during Thursday's Boulder visit.
The team was assembled in 2009, after legislation that would have provided funding for a specialized cold-case team at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation failed to pass. Without the funding, the CBI began to look into other ways to bring together a task force that would look into cold-case murders.
What resulted was a team comprised of people from every aspect of law enforcement from all across Colorado, from police detectives to coroners to prosecutors. The team periodically meets to go over select cold-case murders in the hopes that fresh eyes and expertise could provide breakthroughs.
"You get a complete case review, so everyone gets the same information but digests it in a way that's unique to them," said Audrey Simkins, the cold case analyst for the CBI. "It's nice to have all of their different perspectives. The other benefit to having all of those different disciplines is hearing the perspective from their counterparts from the other fields. It's a team approach."
Simkins said detectives present her with cold cases to be considered for presentation, with the team looking at one to four cases at each meeting.
"We look for a case where they're actually at a position where they tried a lot of things, and the agency has a good handle on the case but has some pointed questions," Simkins said. "They might be thinking about how to approach it or asking, 'Am I on the right track?'"
Convictions in Boulder
So far, the cold case review board has reviewed 21 cases, and two of them have yielded convictions -- both in Boulder County. Last year, Boulder County juries convicted both Michael Clark of the murder of Marty Grisham in 1994 and George Ruibal of the murder of Dana Pechin in 2007.
Brackley said that in both cases, the work of the review team was a major factor in taking the defendants to trial. Pechin's murder was the first case the cold case review team looked at, and Brackley said after the presentation, the Grand Junction Police Department offered to take a second look at the case.
"We essentially doubled our investigative team by joining forces with investigators from the Grand Junction Police Department, who pretty much volunteered to help us out," he said.
Brackley, who is the chair of the selection committee for the cold case review team, said many of the cases come from smaller departments, and the review team is a way to get access to resources they might not otherwise have.
"Suddenly you have access to hundreds of years of homicide and cold-case experience," Brackley said, adding that he himself has learned a lot from being a part of the team.
"Being part of the cold case review team has definitely been an educational experience for me in terms of different aspects and different dimensions of looking at cold cases," he said. "I've certainly learned a lot from all the expert folks on the review team, all of whom are really the best of the best in their jurisdictions."
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Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett, who has said he wants to make bringing cold-case murders to trial a priority, also addressed the review team before they dove into their latest cases.
"This is a really important effort," Garnett said. "We really appreciate you all being here."
Simkins said the cold-case team is a way to make sure cases are not forgotten even as time goes by.
"Someone was murdered and taken from their family and their spouse and there should be some justice for that," she said. "I think it's important for the family that we make sure we are working these cases and taking them seriously.
"Ultimately, there is a murderer out there somewhere, and that's an issue with public safety. We want to bring them to justice."
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I have conducted archaeological field work and related research in Hawai'i, Samoa, Fiji, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.
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CVB board OKs budget
Nearly $50,000 from the city's tourism promotion agency will be used to help sponsor events in the community over the next year.
On Wednesday, the Starkville Visitors and Convention Council approved its upcoming budget, including nearly thousands of dollars for various events and efforts in the community.
The funding starts with the fiscal year which begins Oct. 1. The VCC is the advisory panel for the Starkville Convention and Visitors Bureau, a GSDP member organization.
"We're primarily not an event production organization," said Jennifer Gregory, vice president of tourism development for the Greater Starkville Development Partnership. " ... We have so many organizations in Starkville that produce their own high-quality events. ... Without reinventing the wheel, we feel like it's definitely our duty and responsibility to financially support those events because they bring in between hundreds and tens of thousands of
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The total allocation came to $49,500.
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• Mississippi Horse Park; multiple-day events; $10,000.
• Starkville Area Arts Council; Cotton District Arts Festival; $7,500.
• Starkville Soccer Association; various events; $7,500.
• Starkville Central Neighborhood Foundation, driving tours for historic neighborhoods; $5,000.
• Village Cycle Center, provision of food on the Friday night Sturgis South Dinner Ride; $3,500.
• SAAC; Garden Expo; $3,000.
• SCNF; downtown Starkville survey and National Register nomination; $3,000.
• Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum; sports display; $2,000.
• Golden Triangle Kennel Club; dog show; $1,500.
• Starkville Rotary Club, PRCA Rodeo; $1,500.
• Mississippi State University Department of Art Gallery; "Three Cups of Tea" exhibition; $1,000.
• Mississippi State University Libraries; Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival; $1,000.
• SCNF, Central Neighborhood 10k run; $1,000.
• Starkville-MSU Symphony Association; four concert series, $1,000.
• KMG Creations Dance and Fitness; "Dancing in the Park;" $500.
• Starkville Community Market; continued development; $500.
This funding supplied on a reimbursement basis, Gregory said.
CVB officials raised their projected revenue for the coming year from the Starkville Hotel Tax to $135,000 from $105,000 as officials have seen an increase in this revenue, she said.
The 2 percent Food and Beverage Tax revenue estimate also went up $10,000 to $200,000.
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• Adjusted the current fiscal year budget $25,000 to allow for printing of shopping, dining, lodging and attraction guides.
• Selected Jeremiah Dumas as the panel's vice chairman. Michelle Jones currently serves as the chair for the VCC.


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SALEM — This part of summer is a time for patriotism. It's also the time new state laws go into effect across the nation.
Fiscal years begin July 1 on most financial calendars, and a slew of state government spending regulations kick in each year on that date. Policy laws also hit the books in a wave, though states often mark their independence by enacting such legislation on their own time.
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— DRIVING: In another victory for immigrants living in Oregon without permission, lawmakers voted to create a new type of driver's license for people who can't prove their legal presence in the U.S. The licenses will be good for four years — half as long as standard licenses — and can't be used to board a plane or register to vote. Proponents said the licenses would make roads safer by reducing the number of unlicensed drivers, but critics said it would reward illegal immigration. The measure takes effect Jan. 1, but that could be delayed if activists currently collecting signatures are able to force a statewide vote.
— PENSIONS: Retired government workers earning more than $20,000 a year will see their pension checks grow more slowly. Lawmakers approved a plan backed by Democrats that would curtail annual inflation adjustments, which are currently set at 2 percent. Republicans are pushing for even steeper cuts, and they could get their wish as part of a compromise with Democrats seeking tax increases. Lawmakers said cuts were needed to control rising costs in the pension system, but public employees contend the changes are an unconstitutional breach of their contract with the state. The cuts will take effect only if the Oregon Supreme Court signs off on them, which could take years.
— TANNING: Tanning beds will be off limits to teenagers after Jan. 1. Responding to concerns about skin cancer and comparing tanning beds to cigarettes, lawmakers voted to restrict their use to adults. Minors could still use tanning beds if they get a doctor's permission. Critics said parents, not the state, are responsible for protecting children from the dangers of ultraviolet lights.
— SMOKING: It will also become illegal to smoke in a car with a minor present. Driver's caught violating the new law would be liable for a fine of up to $250 on a first offense, though police officers could only enforce it if they pull over the driver for another traffic violation. Proponents of the measure pointed to the dangers of second-hand smoke and said children shouldn't be exposed to cancer-causing chemicals because their parents chose to smoke. But as with tanning beds, critics said the state shouldn't be regulating what people choose to do in their own cars.


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In our post-monarchic time, the power of the throne is largely gone, but the power of a seated figure remains. The chair itself is unimportant, it is the act of sitting that matters. By placing a portrait in this tradition, the chair assumes the role of the throne, and the sitter the role of king (or queen) —the visual effect is the same.
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But, flip the image around, and suddenly we have a whole new set of connotations. On the Time cover, instead of seeing Trump head on and from below, we see him seated from behind and roughly at eye level. The power relation has shifted entirely.
Trump's turn towards the camera renders the tone conspiratorial rather than judgmental. There are two images at play here — the imagined power-image taken from the front, and the actual image, in which Trump seems to offer the viewer a conniving wink, as if to say, look at how we hoodwinked those suckers in the front (both Trump and the viewer are looking down on those in front). By subverting the typical power dynamic, Time, in a sense, implicates the viewer in Trump's election, in his being on the cover in the first place.
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Today, on June 10, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs published the first human rights strategy of its own. It complements the human rights report the Government submits to Parliament once during each Government term.
The strategy and the related action plan have two goals: on one hand, to mainstream human rights as a more coherent part of Foreign Service operations and, on the other hand, to increase the effectiveness of Finnish international human rights activity by specifying the overarching objectives and spearhead projects for human rights policy.
The strategy steers the operations of the Foreign Service in the areas of security policy, external economic relations as well as development policy. Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, who spoke at the event, underscored the special meaning of human rights in the Finnish foreign policy: "Human rights are an important part of our foreign policy in all areas of operation. In the future, we will strive to further increase human rights competence in the Foreign Service. The purpose is to intensify and systematise human rights training of our civil servants and to utilise the expertise of human rights activists and researchers more efficiently than before," Tuomioja pointed out.
The Foreign Service's human rights strategy defines openness, eradication of discrimination and promotion of inclusion as the overarching goals. These goals will steer the operations for the entire duration of the strategy, in other words, for at least five years.
The action plan linked with the strategy defines three spearhead projects for international human rights policy for the next two years: the human rights of women and girls; economic, social and cultural rights; and increasing inclusion. In connection with all these projects, Finland will lay special emphasis on the rights of discriminated groups.
Other new features in the strategy include the method of implementation and the follow-up mechanism. The Advisory Board on International Human Rights Affairs, consisting of human rights organisations and representatives of Finnish parliamentary parties, has participated in the preparation of the new policy since the very beginning. The Advisory Board plays a key role in the follow-up of the implementation of the strategy and action plan.
In the publication event, Minister for International Development Heidi Hautala emphasised the role of human rights advocates in the monitoring and promotion of human rights. According to Hautala, it should be considered in collaboration with NGOs how Finland could act directly for prevention of violence and harassment directed against human rights activists and, in the last resort, provision of protection in countries where Finland is involved in development cooperation. The Finnish development policy is based on human rights.
Foreign Minister Tuomioja also underscored the importance of NGOs in the development and effectiveness of the Finnish human rights policy. Tuomioja hoped for close cooperation with the civil society. Criticism is also important for further development of the policy.
In connection with the launch of the strategy, the Advisory Board on International Human Rights Affairs celebrated its history, spanning 25 years. The Advisory Board has played a central role in strengthening the status of human rights in the Finnish foreign policy. MP Astrid Thors acts as the current chair of the Advisory Board, and previous chairpersons have included Nils Torvalds, Tarja Kantola, Kristina Stenman and Peter Stenlund.
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